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The Latin Speakers of West Virginia.

05-Oct-15

buy generic disulfiram I have some trepidation about putting this piece up online, because I have worked hard on it, over a period of years, and Rusticatio has in that time become a large part of my life, and I’ve wanted to do it some justice in print.  Sitting on it for years meant that I could just […]

Back Home.

19-Jul-11

buy Lyrica 50 mg I left the Rusticatio Virginiana yesterday afternoon, after several days discussing the future and mission of SALVI, an organization dedicated to living Latin; and after dinner on the road and a long conversation with a friend, I found myself just outside of Liberty, New York, around 1 a.m.  My eyes were closing involuntarily, and I […]

Gone Latin-speakin’…

17-Jul-10

Will probably be out of touch for awhile, as I’ve gone off to rusticate.

Especially in Michigan.

26-Jul-09

Rusticatione facta, I’m headed off to Michigan to be a part of an artists’ colony called The Hillbilly Underground.  Hopefully I will do some writing, though it’d be a lie to say I wanted to do much other than socialize.

Rusticatio.

19-Jul-09

For the next week I’ll be serving in an instructional role at the Rusticatio Virginiana.  A group named SALVI – the North American Living Latin Institute – rents a 19th c. plantation in West Virginia and fills it with people who for a week speak nothing but Latin – taking classes, cooking our meals, playing […]

Writing about the woods.

29-Apr-09

Last summer I worked for a week as an assistant at a Latin-speaking program called the Rusticatio Virginiana.  My “contubernalis” (roommate) there was a wonderful high school Latin teacher named Bob Patrick (“Robertus” in Latin).  Besides an endlessly interesting spiritual path that has included being a Methodist minister, converting to Catholicism, and leaving the Church […]